Ahh...The power of Google
Tuesday, April 15, 2003
I've been wondering for a while how long it takes for search engines to spider my website each day/week/month/whatever, and I just got my answer. Once a week.
While looking though my referral logs, I noticed that the day after I posted my last entry about Liz Murray, 85% of my new referrals have been from search engines (mostly Google and Yahoo!) that picked me up due to that particular entry. I've had over 40 searches land in here in the last seven days, all looking for information about Liz Murray and her story. It's amazing. And I've noticed that MexiJew.com is also becoming one of the top 10 "Liz Murray" search results on Google.com. Again, amazing.
Other "popular" search terms that draw people in here are the pictures of my car, and my entry about Mr.Fred Rogers.
It's pretty interesting to see what people are searching for when they happen upon my site. I'll probably bring it up from time to time when something else interesting starts appearing in my metrics.
Quick Picks
- Marc Ambinder points out something my coworkers and I have noticed for weeks.
- I really, really love the sign up form at Huffduffer.com!
- From the Washington Post: A simplified chart of the McCain tax cuts vs. Obama tax cuts.
- Matt Damon on Sarah Palin: "You do the actuary tables, there's a one out of three chance, if not more, that McCain doesn't survive his first term, and it'll be President Palin. It's like a really bad Disney movie, "The Hockey Mom.' Oh, I'm just a hockey mom from Alaska, and she's president. "She's facing down Vladimir Putin and using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. It's absurd." Amen!
- Google's new browser, Chrome, passes the ACID2 test with flying colors. w00t.
- Karl Rove calls Joe Biden a "big blowhard doofus". Yeah, coming from the closest thing to a real-life Emperor Palpatine that really stings. LOL.
- McCain's running mate has a pregnant and unwed 17 year old daughter. Family values indeed!
- Command line to GUI to command line. And so we've coming full circle: Mozilla introduces Ubiquity, a mash up command line for the web.
- What's the best part about Fox News at the DNC? THIS is the best part! The crowd chanting "Fuck Fox News" at the end of it made my bad day turn around!
- China's Olympic gymnasts may not be old enough to compete. "Shocking" that China is cheating again. It happened in the Sydney Olympics, too. CHEATERS!